2019 Tennessee Code
Title 44 - Animals and Animal Husbandry
Chapter 17 - Dogs and Cats
Part 1 - Dog and Cat Dealers
§ 44-17-102. Part definitions.

(1) “Cat” means any live cat of the species Felis catus;

(2) “Commerce” means buying or selling or transporting from one (1) place to another in this state;

(3) “Commissioner” means the commissioner of agriculture;

(4)

• (A) “Dealer” means any person who, for compensation or profit, buys, sells, transports (except as a common carrier), delivers for transportation, or boards dogs or cats for research purposes, or any person who buys or sells twenty-five (25) or more dogs or cats in any one (1) calendar year for resale within the state or for transportation out of the state;

• (B) “Dealer” also means any person who, for compensation or profit, buys from or sells to a private person at a flea market any dog or cat;

(5) “Dog” means any live dog of the species Canis familiaris;

(6) “Flea market” means any assemblage of twenty (20) or more persons gathered together at regular or irregular intervals, whether in open air or under cover, for the purpose of buying, selling, or trading merchandise to and from the general public, when this buying, selling, or trading is outside of the regular business or occupation of the majority of persons so gathered, and when the majority of the persons so gathered do not pay a business privilege tax for their activities at the flea market;

(7) “Person” means any individual, firm, corporation, partnership, association, or other legal entity; and

(8) “Research facility” means any school, hospital, laboratory, institution, organization or person that uses or intends to use dogs or cats in research, tests, or experiments and that purchases or transports dogs or cats in commerce.